Alexander von Lersner

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Alexander David Karl Freiherr von Lersner (born July 15, 1856 in Frankfurt am Main ; † December 24, 1940 ) was a German architect .

Life

Alexander von Lersner studied at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic and Dresden Polytechnic as a student of Josef Durm , Karl Weißbach and Ernst Giese . In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Corps Bavaria . From 1886 to 1887 he worked at the Heidelberg Castle Construction Office. He was a royal Prussian lieutenant in the Landwehr. Study trips to Italy followed. From October 1887 to May 1893 he worked in Berlin. From 1893 he worked as a freelance architect in Frankfurt am Main. He is buried in the family grave of the von Lersner family in Frankfurt's main cemetery.

family

Alexander von Lersner was the sixth son of the kuk Rittmeister Carl Wilhelm Heinrich (since November 12, 1881 Freiherr von) Lersner (* July 23, 1809 in Nieder-Erlenbach ; † July 18, 1892 ibid) and his wife Eleonore Maria Aloisia Kletzl Edle von Mannen (born March 28, 1821 in Vienna, † March 1, 1895 in Frankfurt am Main) (wedding was on August 11, 1841 in Pressburg ).

Alexander von Lersner married Bertha Karoline Henriette Freiin von Woelwarth adH Lauterburg on May 26, 1896 (* May 29, 1865; † 1925). The marriage would have three children:

  • Heinrich Ludwig Georg Wilhelm Freiherr von Lersner (* May 25, 1897, † 1917 in aerial combat)
  • Karl Alexander Wolf Eduard Ferdinand Freiherr von Lersner (born July 1, 1898 in Frankfurt am Main; † 1943)
  • Albert Achilles August Karl Freiherr von Lersner (born August 13, 1900 in Frankfurt am Main)

His grandfather was the Hessian Chamberlain and Chamber Councilor Karl Ludwig von Lersner (born July 27, 1777 in Nieder-Erlenbach; † May 8, 1847 there) and his wife Augusta Wilhelmine Helene Freiin du Bos du Thil (born May 2, 1781 in Braunfels ; † October 18, 1854 in Nieder-Erlenbach) (wedding in Braunfels on July 22, 1802).

Work (incomplete)

  • 1884: own house in Frankfurt am Main, Blumenstrasse 7
  • 1896/1897: Women's monastery of the Cronstetten and Hynspergian Evangelical Foundation in Frankfurt am Main, Lindenstrasse 27
  • 1898: Apartment building in Frankfurt am Main, Sömmeringstraße 16
  • 1907: Residential and commercial building in Frankfurt am Main, Braubachstrasse 24
  • 1909: Residential and commercial building in Frankfurt am Main, Braubachstrasse 26
  • 1910: Rectory for the Protestant white women community in Frankfurt am Main, Gutleutstrasse 121
  • 1913: Residential and commercial building in Frankfurt am Main, Braubachstrasse 28

literature

  • Thomas Zeller: The architects and their building activities in Frankfurt am Main from 1870 to 1950. Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-921606-51-9 , page 223.
  • Siegfried Rösch : Goethe's relatives, 1956, pages 241, 423, 251, 264

Web links

Commons : Alexander von Lersner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 218.